‘Cozy & affordable’: West London studio boasts a shower… under the bed

A “cozy” crib in a lavish West London district is up for grabs for a mere £520 per month, as long as the prospective tenant is prepared to wash under their bed.

The studio apartment in
question is situated on West Kensington’s upmarket Castletown
Road.

Bizarrely, this pinnacle of minimalist city-dwelling comes
complete with a humble shower nested under a single bed.

The mezzanine-style flat is also home to “a fully furnished
living area,” including a kitchenette, table, chair,
wardrobe and chest of drawers, an advertisement on British
property site Zoopla boasts.

Zoopla, a property website covering the residential property
market in Britain, said the flat is ideally suited to
“students, working professionals and those looking for a
thriving London life at an affordable rate.”

Among those who spoke at the rally were radical filmmaker Ken
Loach and UKIP chief Nigel Farage. Farage and Loach’s proposed
solutions to the crisis were radically different.

Farage claimed slashing immigration numbers would taper demand
for housing in Britain. But Loach proposed a far-reaching
government building scheme similar to Aneurin Bevan’s in the
1940s, whereby builders, planners and architects were directly
employed by the state.

Addressing the crowd, Loach said “tens of thousands of
families have their lives in chaos” as Britain's political
establishment has watched on.

The Homes for Britain event was supported by estate agents,
developers, charities and social landlords.

It called upon the next government to deliver a plan to solve the
UK’s housing crisis before yet another generation is burdened
with it.

David Orr, of the National Housing Federation, told the Evening
Standard: “It’s absurd and unfair that people are shelling
out around half their incomes to live in homes the size of a
shoebox in London.”

“This is one of the many signs of the chronic housing crisis
currently facing our capital,” he added.